Fifteen [video as always]
I see that it's customary to say something publicly when you've marked a year in this world. I suppose then I ought to speak up as well, seeing as my one year moment was a few days ago.
I have made few alliances, and continue to live as I always have. There's nothing personal I want to share, so I will spare the lot of you that sort of drivel. My life is not for your entertainment, and I'm sure you'd be glad not to have to listen to me for long.
[a long pause, like he's mulling over the things he could say and mentally erasing or rejecting each one]
I don't like this world. But I don't miss my own with any burning desire. It simply boggles me that the machine will not send us home if we're not living up to expectations, if we're taking the money and running so to speak. Only slightly less mysterious is the fact that no one has bothered to try to fix the machine. We all simply sit and watch the months tick by, until each person either vanishes or marks a year, and then two, and then...
[another long pause. Watch the wheels turn in his head]
Even if I were trapped another fifty years, I will never assimilate and settle down. I can guarantee that much.
I have made few alliances, and continue to live as I always have. There's nothing personal I want to share, so I will spare the lot of you that sort of drivel. My life is not for your entertainment, and I'm sure you'd be glad not to have to listen to me for long.
[a long pause, like he's mulling over the things he could say and mentally erasing or rejecting each one]
I don't like this world. But I don't miss my own with any burning desire. It simply boggles me that the machine will not send us home if we're not living up to expectations, if we're taking the money and running so to speak. Only slightly less mysterious is the fact that no one has bothered to try to fix the machine. We all simply sit and watch the months tick by, until each person either vanishes or marks a year, and then two, and then...
[another long pause. Watch the wheels turn in his head]
Even if I were trapped another fifty years, I will never assimilate and settle down. I can guarantee that much.